Trying to get php to fill in alt tags

[pp4sale]

I have been tying for ages to use php to create alt tags that pull data from a mysql database. So for instance the alt tag could show the region, price and country etc by pulling that info from a table.

I have this code below but I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING.

This is the code I'm using:

if(!empty($a1[image]))
{
$images = explode("|", $a1['image']);
$MyImage = $images[0];
//$ListingTable .= "<img src=\"re_images/$MyImage\" width=100 height=80 border=1>";
$ListingTable .= "<img src="thumbnails/'.$MyImage.'" width="100" height="80" border="1" alt="'.$a1['region'].', '.$a1['country'].'" />';
echo $ListingTable;
}
else
{$ListingTable .= "<img src=\"no_image.gif\" border=1>";}

Does any know why it still isn't working? 😕

[NogDog]

If you change the initial double-quote to a single-quote, I think you'll be OK:

$ListingTable .= '<img src="thumbnails/'.$MyImage.'" width="100" height="80" border="1" alt="'.$a1['region'].', '.$a1['country'].'" />';

[pp4sale]

Hi there thanks for that, it finally works!!!..... but it throws out all of my tables etc so the page is all messed up, is this because the code hasn't been finished there properly?

I've added the extra table code and put the newly added code in red:

$ListingTable .= "<table align=center width=100% border=1 bordercolor=#336699 rules=rows cellspacing=0>\n";

while($a1 = mysql_fetch_array($r1))
{$ListingTable .= "<table align=center width=\"100%\">\n";
$ListingTable .= "<tr>\n\t<td width=75>";

if(!empty($a1[image]))
{ $images = explode("|", $a1['image']);
$MyImage = $images[0];
//$ListingTable .= "<img src=\"re_images/$MyImage\" width=100 height=80 border=1>";
$ListingTable .= '<img src="thumbnails/'.$MyImage.'" width="100" height="80" border="1" alt="'.$a1['state'].', '.$a1['country'].'" />';
echo $ListingTable; }else
{$ListingTable .= "<img src=\"no_image.gif\" border=1>"; }
$ListingTable .= "</table>\n\n</td>\n</tr>\n\n";
}

$ListingTable .= "</table>";

Thank you!!! 😃

[dalecosp]

pp4sale wrote:

is this because the code hasn't been finished there properly?

Probably. Check the source code displayed by your browser, and then make the appropriate adjustments to your PHP/HTML code.

[pp4sale]

Thanks for that.

From this code I get: <img src="thumbnails/{$im_array[0]}" alt="alicante, Spain">

But from the original code I get: <img src="thumbnails/1174243258_offer_16.jpg">

So it's not finding the image any more. Does anyone know why?

[dalecosp]

Looks to me as if the line in question isn't being parsed by PHP; for starters, the line of code that produces the bad line is encased in PHP tags, correct?

Ah, I think I see it. Change the "ListingTable.=" line to this:

$ListingTable .= '<img src="thumbnails/'."$MyImage".'" width="100" height="80" border="1" alt="'.$a1['state'].', '.$a1['country'].'" />'; 

$MyImage isn't being interpolated because it's not in double quotes there; you get a literal instead.

[dalecosp]

And, for future reference, I think I'd have done the whole thing in one big double quote anyways, except for the array members, and just escaped where I needed a little quote in the HTML output. YMMV, of course 🙂